Music making Quotes · Page 103

My life a stage I need her just to stand on it. Everyday she look back, I toss a band on it.

— Rick Ross

I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different…

— John Frusciante

We're just a metal band. Whenever people ask me what kind of music we play, I always say metal.

— Mattew Nicholls

Led Zeppelin was a band that would change things around substantially each time it played... We were becoming tighter and tighter, to…

— Jimmy Page

I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.

— Robert Smith

“But it was late. We had to go home. We listened to the river singing, the river singing stone.”

— Myrna Peña-Reyes

I make sure that everyone on the team and in my band really love music. They live for music, and it's our…

— Jade Bird

The stereotypical rock-star-trashing-a-hotel-room thing? Those days had passed by the time I was in a band big enough to do it.

— Phil Collins

I must say it was not very inspiring to see that tons of new bands emerged from nowhere and started to play…

— Varg Vikernes

I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into…

— Ellie Goulding

I started out in a heavy metal band with a guy who could really play guitar, and I thought the only thing…

— Robert Pollard

I would sing myself with a tambura and just regular a cappella singing and practicing. I did that around 1973 and 1974,…

— Yoshi Wada

In our band, the difficulty really isn't, 'Is one of us gonna fall off the wagon or get into a bad situation?'…

— John Dolmayan

I can't play an instrument to save my life. But when I'm creating, and when I'm making music, I feel like I'm…

— Khalid

The vocals are the very last thing I do. So, it's kinda the opposite: with country. it's singing and guitar first, but…

— Hank Williams III

Once I wrote 'Atmosphere,' I thought, 'This is my story; it's me and my life and what I've gone through to get…

— Kaskade

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that…

— Tom Waits

“God calls His people to celebrate Him with singing and playing, and then He promises to do a little drumming of His…

— Terry Law

For me, singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.

— Edith Piaf

I like many different kinds of music. My favourite band is Radiohead, and I'm also a giant Jeff Buckley fan.

— Christopher Masterson

We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and…

— M. Shadows

If Heaven is willing to sing to us, it is little to ask that we be ready to listen.

— Nancy Gibbs

“He had learned to play his instrument with the same joyless precision that barefoot waifs exercised in stoking the coal fires of…

— Glen David Gold

A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's…

— Chris Cornell

I started taking part in college competitions... my first-ever performance with a band was in McDonald's, and I got Rs 500. I…

— Atif Aslam

I take every lesson in the book: singing, acting, guitar, piano, jazz, organ and tap-dancing.

— Barbi Benton

I played in bands very very young. I painted; I did photography, all kinds of things.

— Johan Renck

There's definitely a solitary aspect to not having a band, and there are times when I wish that I did.

— Grimes

I feel so lucky to have been in a group where it was a real band. This wasn't a singer and guitar…

— Robbie Robertson

“Being in a band is just like being married. The children are the songs and the sex is playing live onstage.”

— Jen Sincero

The Beatles were a british boy band who played their own instruments and wrote their own songs. I think thats pretty neat.

— Mark Salling

A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!

— Bill Bruford

After this many years of being a lead singer in a touring rock band, I've had my fair share of fun. But…

— Chad Kroeger

I've been touring every year since the band broke up. It's my job. It's what I love to do. So I'm all…

— Vince Neil

“The most important thing is that singing is communication, and you need to say something honest and real.”

— Deke Sharon

I'm a real band guy, you know? I'm really good at certain things, and the band stuff is one of them.

— Steven Van Zandt

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the…

— Eve Arnold

I'm really getting better at guitar. I'm not trapped behind a piano. You can get out and move with a guitar and…

— Carole King

I am very unmusical. I can't carry a tune. I would never be able to play an instrument.

— Don DeLillo

I wish people would just like me for what I am, the singer in an OK new wave band.

— Courtney Love